By Ryan Elcock
Between 58 to 51 BC, as he was successfully bringing the Gauls under the Roman Empire, Julius Caesar is said to have remarked to a traveling companion that it was, indeed, ‘better to be first among the Gauls than second among the Romans.’ Just as there are interpretations galore to the Roman Emperor’s quixotic statement, the dictum may have been about the ego; that unquenchable penchant for breaking new ground, where one never sells their soul for praise - the sojourn
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